Gustavus Adolphus Union

Gustavus Adolphus Union, worldwide organization for the spreading of the Christian faith. It was founded by the Lutheran superintendent Gottlob Grossmann at Leipzig in 1832 as a “living” bicentennial memorial to the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf, Protestant hero of the Thirty Years’ War killed at the Battle of Lützen. Organized to support Protestant minority churches in Germany and abroad, the union gave its first support in 1833 to a fledgling Lutheran congregation in Bavaria,...